almsman

Example Sentences

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Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman.

From Time Magazine Archive

What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John

Thus, though we find in Johnson, alms-basket, alms-giver, with the hyphen; we have almsdeed, almshouse, almsman, without: and many similar examples of an unsettled practice might be adduced, sufficient to fill several pages.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis